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“[T]he Deputy Commissioner informed our staff that GSA assesses that Mr. Trump will be in breach of his lease agreement the moment he takes office on January 20, 2017, unless he fully divests himself of all financial interests in the lease for the Washington, D.C. hotel,” four Democratic members of Congress wrote in a letter to GSA administrator Denise Turner Roth.

“The Deputy Commissioner made clear that Mr. Trump must divest himself not only of managerial control, but of all ownership interest as well,” the letter states.

The lease for the hotel — which is in the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington — states, “No member or delegate to Congress, or elected official of the United States … shall be admitted to any share or part of this Lease, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom.”

Trump signed the lease before he jumped into the presidential race.

The letter to the GSA administrator requests that more information on the hotel, the lease and deal with the Trump Organization be provided to Congress by Tuesday.

Trump has announced a press conference for January to describe how he intends to remove himself from his various business interests.

A spokesman told reporters Wednesday that the president-elect would deal with this impending violation of his lease at that press event.